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In my previous post in which I talked about the principales of the presentationーPIAPA, I said it was mainly based on my experience of performance, education, job, etc. But I realized later that I was actually influenced by my entire life experience, what I saw, heard, read, you name it.

And the first book which came to mind in this regard was “Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery” by Garr Reynolds (2011).

This great book shows us that the good presentation is tied to the concept of Zen (Buddhism) as well as Jazz music. As I am interested in three of them, this book was quite striking, and I think some people might feel that way, so I will share in this post.Continue reading →

What do you think about when you hear the word, “Presentation”? Nowadays, we have many opportunities to present things. In short, presentation is to explain your products (be it tangible or intangible) and it could be through PowerPoint, arts, joke, foods, idea, etc.
From my artistic, educational, academic and professional experience,I came to understand that there are 5 common things which make good or bad presentation (from my perspective), about which I will talk in this entry.Continue reading →

(1). Seventeen minutes can change your feeling
Funny, dynamic, simple but so striking talk about change in Education.
“We should refuse to let students fail!”
The link is here

(2). Innovative way of presentation
There are not so much message in this but the way to present with piano is so intriguing.
The link is here

(3). Traditional way can still win.
On the contrary, one can entertain and at the same time address important message to audiences by just talking- traditional way of presentation.
Ken Robinson, a famous TED talker, didn’t even use gesture nor walk around the audience. Especially the last 3 minutes, the part of death valley, is breath-taking moment.
The link is here

I wish I had skills like them to attract people.But as I said in the beginning, everybody has a different style of presentation.
We just need to elaborate it by learning from others.

Fortunately, on the occasion of an joint event with other UN organizations, I had a chance to implement 1 hour long presentation in front of 800 students as UNESCO’s intern

The result was….success!

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It was an international environment day, and the objective was to deliver an message to care environment. The venue is small gym with 800 GIRLS so that there would not be so much movement. The task given to me by other UN persons was

“Doing something dynamic”

Wow….although it sounded so challenging, I wanted to do it and decided to do something like

“Quiz with multiple colors”

First of all, I had distributed 3 papers with different color

As a preparation for myself, I made a PowerPoint document with quiz on the environment. I tried to not focus on Macro to Micro approach telling about global warming, but on something common to everyday life such as shower water or supermarket plastic bag, etc.

Each question has 3 choices and students will chose which color paper to chose (raising red one if answer is A, blue if B, G if C)

800 persons raise different color paper so that I thought it should be beautiful.

In the presentation, I used all the technique based on my experience of teacher, actor and dancer.

What was important was not to finish just with joy but also with learning, having them think and discuss what each of us can do for the issues.

Me: “Regarding what you are thinking and discussing about, when will we start? Tomorrow? Next week? Next year?”